The Art of One
Skill
“Why is it you teach me I must suppress anger in my technique?”
“Because you should not cling to what is mutable but seek the
permanent principle.”
What
is Taekwondo? It is the art of one skill. Taekwondo begins with one skill and
finds completion there also. Its beginning and its end are one. Taekwondo is in
nothing more than a single basic skill. This is not to say you should always
perform use this one skill when you spar with your opponent, but rather that
you should become the skill itself. You have to practice many techniques to
arrive at proper Taekwondo, training in which you should hone and master your
own one skill that penetrates all those various techniques and discard all
else. Just as a weapon that is a part of you surpasses
other weapons, so this one skill as a part of you will capably suppress a
hundred others. Your own self to be protected is one and so is an opponent you
would subdue.
Because
your self has become the skill itself, it is natural and nothing exceptional to
perform it. Thus, the opponent will not recognize it, and if he were to
recognize it he could not defend against it. The one skill, though simple, also
contains all techniques in one and comprises boundless changes. Though you
perform it fleetingly, you can achieve it only through long and steady
training, for it is the principle of Taekwondo to subdue the opponent with the
end part of the entirety. Taekwondo is simple. Taekwondo is in a moment, like
the crossroads of life and death.
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